Belly Provocative

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

By Richard Cousineau, Santa Barbara

The American Apparel ad in the August 25 issue is way over the top. I guess it represents the values of the ownership of the paper, that is, "Anything goes if it brings in money." Disgusting and beyond good taste. Where in the paper going next? Full pornography?

Comments

Sex sells, and maybe keeps a few jobs with it. The Indy has emloyees to keep and bills to pay. I guess what we should be asking is how many people should they lay off so they can keep their advertising in "good taste". I may not agree with their editorial content, but they have a right and a responsibility to keep their enterprise economically sound, and if good taste has to suffer in that end, so be it.

I just love it when people tell a busines, "Just get rid of that advertiser." Oh sure! No problem! We'll just start telling the life's blood of our business to go take a hike! After all, there's plenty more fish in the sea who are willing to commit revenue to print advertising! Telling a periodical to get rid of an advertiser is like telling 711 to stop selling Slurpies. And, it's not like it was an ad for kitten stomping boots. I think it would also be prudent to take a look at 'The Independent's' main demographic before making an assessment as to whether it was a bad idea to run 'American Apparel's' ad. But, all that not withstanding; thanks Richard, for further bringing the offending ad to people's attention.

And yes, all of you anti-capitalism liberals, 'The Independent' is a business. They don't rely on the mystical money tree to keep their operation going. They rely on generating revenue and, avert your gaze if you feel so compelled, profits. I'm sorry you had to see that, but it's true.

This is rich. A comment chain, where the "conservatives" are aggrandizing money over conservative social values.

A perfect example of how the current crop of self-labeled "conservatives" are extremist, compared to *anyone else*--including any more moderate conservative. The farther to the right one goes, the farther to the left everyone else is. . . .

That makes about as much sense as anything else you've written; meaning none. As usual, you miss the point completely. It's not about conservatism versus liberalism. It's about good business practices versus unrealistic business practices.

In this case, I was commenting on the thread--it's pretty obvious, because my first sentence said "comment chain".

When considering capitalistic motives, it makes the most sense to keep advertisers, even--and especially--at the cost of possibly alienating a few with fine sensibilities.

My comment was to illustrate how knee-jerk reactions, like yours and that of 'jfklbj' are so ultra-"conservative", that you don't even realize that you've turned on your own tail. Talk about missing "the point". . . .

And. . .again. . .I feel that you have reading-comprehension issues. I take no responsibility for your inability to connect thoughts expressed with written words.